Migration Contracts in the North of England

Migration
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing Migration 299 316 398
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 9.13% 6.60% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.14% 7.69% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 311
10th Percentile £350 £353 £350
25th Percentile £403 £425 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +14.13%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £688 £644 £675
England median daily rate £537 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.29% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 7
10th Percentile £16.23 - £50.00
25th Percentile £26.88 £15.50 -
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.69% -77.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £31.30 £16.50 -
90th Percentile £70.63 £100.80 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.12 £65.00
% change year-on-year -41.67% -33.67% +142.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Migration falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,949 4,110 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.07% 85.80% 90.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,903 2,521 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £288 £303
25th Percentile £376 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £568 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 356 207
10th Percentile £14.77 £11.04 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.78 £12.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.61 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% -36.43% +49.73%
75th Percentile £56.34 £44.24 £45.05
90th Percentile £83.13 £53.88 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the North of England

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Migration in the North of England

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the North of England

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the North of England

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the North of England

Migration
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +7 179 £525 +5.00% 87
Yorkshire +8 111 £500 - 56
North East -2 15 £650 +30.00% 10
Migration
England

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (7.69%) Confluence
2 16 (5.35%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.67%) JBoss
6 4 (1.34%) CICS
7 2 (0.67%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.33%) nginx
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.33%) SAS
8 1 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (3.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (5.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.34%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (2.34%) SAP PP
4 6 (2.01%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (1.34%) SAP SD
6 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.67%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.33%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.33%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.33%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 37 (12.37%) AWS
1 37 (12.37%) Azure
2 21 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (3.68%) GCP
3 11 (3.68%) Power Platform
4 7 (2.34%) Entra ID
4 7 (2.34%) OpenShift
5 5 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (1.67%) OneDrive
5 5 (1.67%) SaaS
6 4 (1.34%) IaaS
6 4 (1.34%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (1.00%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.00%) Lucidchart
7 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.00%) Serverless
8 2 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.67%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.02%) DNS
2 14 (4.68%) Firewall
3 6 (2.01%) DHCP
4 5 (1.67%) NAS
4 5 (1.67%) SAN
5 4 (1.34%) VPN
5 4 (1.34%) WAN
6 3 (1.00%) Kerberos
6 3 (1.00%) MPLS
7 2 (0.67%) BGP
7 2 (0.67%) Broadband
7 2 (0.67%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (0.67%) IPv6
7 2 (0.67%) Multicast
7 2 (0.67%) Network Security
7 2 (0.67%) OSPF
7 2 (0.67%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.67%) SSL
7 2 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 17 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.02%) Relational Database
4 11 (3.68%) Oracle Reports
4 11 (3.68%) SQL Server
5 10 (3.34%) Power BI
6 9 (3.01%) Tableau
7 6 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.67%) Data Mining
8 5 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.67%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.67%) Siebel EIM
8 5 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.34%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.67%) Big Data
10 2 (0.67%) DB2
10 2 (0.67%) Easytrieve
10 2 (0.67%) Metadata
10 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (11.04%) JIRA
2 21 (7.02%) Jenkins
3 15 (5.02%) Git
4 11 (3.68%) GitLab
4 11 (3.68%) Liquibase
5 10 (3.34%) Gradle
5 10 (3.34%) JUnit
5 10 (3.34%) Mockito
6 6 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (1.67%) CA Release Automation
7 5 (1.67%) ScriptRunner
7 5 (1.67%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.67%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.34%) TestRail
9 3 (1.00%) Selenium
10 2 (0.67%) ERwin
10 2 (0.67%) JMeter
10 2 (0.67%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.67%) SOAtest
General
1 85 (28.43%) Social Skills
2 82 (27.42%) Finance
3 37 (12.37%) Public Sector
4 36 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (10.03%) Banking
6 17 (5.69%) Manufacturing
7 15 (5.02%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.68%) Legal
8 11 (3.68%) Marketing
8 11 (3.68%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.34%) Electronics
9 10 (3.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (2.68%) French Language
11 4 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.00%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.00%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.67%) Aviation
13 2 (0.67%) Law
13 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (13.71%) Architect
2 30 (10.03%) Analyst
3 23 (7.69%) Consultant
4 20 (6.69%) Business Analyst
5 18 (6.02%) Developer
6 17 (5.69%) Migration Engineer
6 17 (5.69%) Project Manager
6 17 (5.69%) Senior
7 16 (5.35%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.35%) Data Engineer
8 13 (4.35%) Network Engineer
9 12 (4.01%) Administrator
10 11 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.68%) Migration Manager
11 10 (3.34%) SAP Consultant
12 9 (3.01%) Backup Engineer
12 9 (3.01%) Commvault Engineer
12 9 (3.01%) Firewall Engineer
13 8 (2.68%) Data Migration Engineer
13 8 (2.68%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.02%) Kafka
2 15 (5.02%) Spring Boot
3 12 (4.01%) Web Services
4 10 (3.34%) OpenAPI
4 10 (3.34%) React
4 10 (3.34%) Spring
4 10 (3.34%) Swagger
5 8 (2.68%) REST
5 8 (2.68%) SOAP
6 7 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (2.34%) OAuth
7 6 (2.01%) XML
8 5 (1.67%) JMS
8 5 (1.67%) Middleware
8 5 (1.67%) SAML
9 4 (1.34%) JSON
9 4 (1.34%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.00%) D3.js
10 3 (1.00%) OpenID
11 2 (0.67%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
2 23 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 14 (4.68%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.68%) Data Structures
4 11 (3.68%) Mainframe
5 9 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.34%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.01%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.67%) Replication
8 5 (1.67%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.34%) VSAM
10 3 (1.00%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.00%) IoT
10 3 (1.00%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.00%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.67%) Digital Wallet
11 2 (0.67%) Oracle Licensing
11 2 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (12.04%) Windows
2 28 (9.36%) Linux
3 23 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.00%) Android
6 3 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.00%) Unix
6 3 (1.00%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.67%) HPUX
7 2 (0.67%) OS/400
7 2 (0.67%) Solaris
7 2 (0.67%) zOS
8 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.33%) VMS
8 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (32.44%) Data Migration
2 68 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (20.40%) Agile
4 38 (12.71%) Change Management
5 35 (11.71%) DevOps
5 35 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 29 (9.70%) ETL
7 28 (9.36%) Microservices
8 27 (9.03%) Data Modelling
9 24 (8.03%) Performance Tuning
10 23 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (7.69%) Project Management
11 20 (6.69%) CI/CD
11 20 (6.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 20 (6.69%) Validation
12 18 (6.02%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (6.02%) Translating Business Requirements
12 18 (6.02%) User Acceptance Testing
13 17 (5.69%) Roadmaps
13 17 (5.69%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 72 (24.08%) SQL
2 25 (8.36%) PL/SQL
3 22 (7.36%) Python
4 21 (7.02%) PowerShell
5 19 (6.35%) Java
6 13 (4.35%) Bash
7 11 (3.68%) Perl
8 10 (3.34%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.67%) Groovy
10 4 (1.34%) COBOL
10 4 (1.34%) JCL
10 4 (1.34%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.67%) C++
11 2 (0.67%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.67%) REXX
11 2 (0.67%) RPG
12 1 (0.33%) ABAP
12 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.33%) VB
12 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 58 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 50 (16.72%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.01%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (3.01%) Degree
5 5 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.00%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.67%) CCIE
7 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.67%) PMP
7 2 (0.67%) Tableau Certification
7 2 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.33%) CCNA
8 1 (0.33%) CCNP
8 1 (0.33%) MCSE
8 1 (0.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.02%) QA
2 14 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.01%) GDPR
4 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.67%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.67%) ISO 8583
4 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.67%) PSD2
4 2 (0.67%) SEPA
5 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.33%) NCSC
5 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 36 (12.04%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.02%) Docker
3 16 (5.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.01%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.34%) vSphere
7 3 (1.00%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.67%) PowerHA
9 1 (0.33%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.33%) Firmware
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 17 (5.69%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.35%) Ansible
3 12 (4.01%) Oracle RMAN
4 10 (3.34%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (3.01%) Progress Chef
5 9 (3.01%) vCenter Server
6 7 (2.34%) Terraform
7 6 (2.01%) Kibana
8 4 (1.34%) vRealize
9 3 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.00%) Grafana
9 3 (1.00%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.67%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.67%) Nagios
10 2 (0.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.67%) SCCM
10 2 (0.67%) WSUS
11 1 (0.33%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.33%) SCSM
Vendors
1 51 (17.06%) Oracle
2 43 (14.38%) Microsoft
3 40 (13.38%) SAP
4 19 (6.35%) VMware
5 17 (5.69%) Cisco
6 10 (3.34%) Commvault
7 9 (3.01%) CheckPoint
8 7 (2.34%) Splunk
9 6 (2.01%) Atlassian
9 6 (2.01%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.01%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.67%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.67%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.67%) IBM
10 5 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.67%) Siebel
11 4 (1.34%) BMC
11 4 (1.34%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.00%) Google
12 3 (1.00%) Meraki